IE has to be about the most frustrating thing to develop for - Web standards? WTF are they?
IE for PC, you'd think it would work the same as IE for the Mac (Same company wrote it, right?) WRONG. The company I work for caters to the newspaper industry. Guess what! Newspapers are about 95% Mac users... Write a page that works on the PC, it looks wrong on the Mac, and vice versa...
Mozilla on the Mac renders the same as Mozilla on the PC... Firefox on the Mac renders the same as on a PC. Why shouldn't become a standard development platform?
Remember when IE first started becoming "standard" and you'd hit a web site, and get a message "Sorry, you must have IE 4.x installed to view this site" and people would install it, and view the page. I say people start making an error page, "You must have Mozilla installed to view this page - www.mozilla.org for this free software"
The web-dev community could easily force this into being.
I found one at a garage sale this morning - part of a $5.00 PS/2 (old 80286 vintage PS/2) system. If only IBM would make an updated version of this - same microswitch tech under each key, but add some of the newer features (USB, volume controls, etc). I'm sick of all the membrane keyboards.
The keyboards happily on my desk now, and the other parts are waiting for trash pickup monday morning!
As for the mouse, I hate the "full length button" crap - I hate that on the Macs, I don't think I want it on my PC!
That's probably the best (only?) way to deal with something like this.
God, I would LOVE to have my boss ask me to do something illegal - I'd have her arse in a bind in no time!
They'll pad their pocketbooks with the extra ad revenue, and still drop $55 piece of junk games on the shelf at Best Buy. Justification will be, "It offsets the cost of piracy."
Has ANY gaming company ever done any studies to see if a $15.00 game title on the store shelves would sell better than a $50 game? It seems to me that there would be at least three to four times as many that could afford the cheaper box which would boost sales more... AND, the people that want to play the game cheaper wouldn't have to bother a) downloading the ISO off torrents, b) findind a crack, c) getting infected with virus from "crack", d) reinstalling computer.
I have yet to work for any company where the marketing people have half a clue as to the way things really work.
I know of.one. company (A VoIP company - probably soon to go belly up with the feds trying to make VoIP tappable) that actually has salespeople with CCNE's that actually sell the network, submit a complete 'plan' for the system, and the engineers back home actually do the router/device configuration.
I want to work there!
Remember when there were 30-pin SIMMS, and their very close cousin DIP(p?)S? One package has metal contacts, the other has pins.
Well, I had some really expensive "pin" type 4-meg chips. I needed SIMMS. I desoldered the pins, Re-soldered the connectors with thin strips of tin-foil, plugged them in, and it worked!
That was an uber-machine back then.... A 486 DX-2 66 with 16 mb of RAM!
I work at a company that hosts a huge number of websites for newspapers around the US. Enough of them already have become a PITA because the publishers think Google AdSense will bring good money to their site, and have inundated us with requests to add the damn javascript to their pages. (God forbit someone at the papers learn how to edit a friggin HTML file and insert a in it!!!)
The funny thing is, these ads often compete against the newspapers themselves! I've seen ads show up that say "Why bother advertising in newspaper classifieds when you can advertise with us?" LOL... Too rich.
Now, it's going to be, "How come my right side of the web page keeps stretching from it's normal size" - not paying any attention that this 400x300 pixel monster is taking up real estate on the page now.
When you try to get a easy-to-use, non-Windows system running on your elderly parent's PC so they can get online without worrying about spyware/viruses/etc., it's not exactly possible to do an FTP install over a dialup connection.
When I initially got into Linux, I tried every distro I could get my hands on, and SuSE is the only one that gave me that warm-fuzzy feeling -- UNTIL the first major update came out, and I hunted forever trying to get the dang ISOs for it.
(Back to the drawing board - 9.1's shipping this week)
...an Internet tracking program. Honest! It works!
How many viruses are going to pop up after something like this launches proclaiming to be the real thing?
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It's a legit comment you mod-nazis... They plainly push the fact that you can play head-to-head games if you get a dual-port VGA card... It doesn't do much good to tout that as a selling point if the games play like shit!
But how well does it handle FPS games?
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Being a long time Metallica fan, I bought that St. Anger album without so much as hearing a single track. I listened to the album once, and was absolutely shocked to hear how HORRIBLE it was.
Lars, the RIAA, et al., can bite me - Next release from Metallica will get downloaded. IF it doesn't suck, it'll get burned on a CDR, and I'll call it even for making me spend $15 on a shitty album the previous time!
2600 was the name of a hack/phreak/anarchy group named after the 2600hz tone which used to be the key to black-box phreaking. 2600 down the phone line would drop you to the phone co's "master tone" where you could route your own calls, anywhere, free...
(Not that I'd admit to anything, but I can still whistle that tone - a lot of good it does now:)
The sailers of old did indeed think people fell off the edge of the world after all. Hundreds upon hundreds were lost exploring the seas. If they stopped at the loss of life, we'd all be in Asia/Africa/Europe now - possibly/.'ing by carrier pidgeon.
...(*) Users of email will not put up with it
Well, after two violations, they'll either be typing up their spamming BS with their toes or actually have to come out of their holes in order to voice their opinions.
At that point, Slashdot can post another article listing the guy's home address, phone number, etc. Give him a Real Life/. (tm)
Why in hell is the price of gas approaching an all-time high here in the States? Sorry to say, there's been no overwhelming increase in Middle-East to US oil exports in the past year.
If you want to say Stupid American, why not get the facts straight, and include "Stupid [insert your nationality here]"?
I worked for a large elevator manufacturing company formerly HQ'd in the US, but it got bought out by a company in Finland.
Anyway, the admins there didn't have DHCP set up properly, and laptops brought into the US from Finland wouldn't release/renew their IPs properly. They also didn't allow laptop users to have admin access on their own laptops. Result: laptop that you couldn't log onto anything with.
The only thing you could do is copy the SAM file and crack it with L0phtCrack. This saved many Powerpoint presentations for a large number of VIPs from Finland.
One day I was backing up some stuff from my laptop to the corp. network because the HDD was getting ready to fail. The genius that configured the corporate anti-virus had it set to identify L0phtCrack as a virus/trojan horse.
Within five minutes of detection, the network security manager (note: this was a former SALESPERSON who knew NOTHING about network security) comes running into the room... "WHO HAS LOW-FAT HERE??? I KNOW SOMEONE HAS LOW-FAT."
I didn't have the heart to tell him he was a f'ing idiot:)
Good to hear! I hate the zero-notice BS that so many organizations pull.
"We've known that this was coming for weeks" - Have a friggin' heart and drop the ball gently!
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I was working as a consultant for a major elevator company in the US as a network admin/tech support slave.
I've been there almost two years, they'd given me applications for permanent employment. Two days before by two-year anniversary (and one month before my first marriage), the big boss called me in his office.
Here I was thinking, "Woohoo! Finally." I got there, and the manager from the consulting company was there, along with the corporate boss, and a big box. "Sorry, times are tough, and you're the highest paid consultant at the moment" (Never mind that I was the most experienced one there!)
They just cut me like that, no chance for negotiating a slightly lower pay or anything. Poof! Gone!
So, after I was gone, I was a bit peeved to say the least. Just to be able to vent a little, I sent an email to the corporate bossman, saying "You've put me in a real fine mess with all the plans for my wedding I now have to scrap... People shouldn't be treated like cattle. I wouldn't wish this on anyone - how would you feel if you ended up in the same situation?" The idiots read that as a threat against the boss' familiy somehow:P It was fun talking to some of the old employees there, hearing that "If XXXXX comes on the premises, call the police immediately" Talk about knee-jerk reaction!
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IE has to be about the most frustrating thing to develop for - Web standards? WTF are they? IE for PC, you'd think it would work the same as IE for the Mac (Same company wrote it, right?) WRONG. The company I work for caters to the newspaper industry. Guess what! Newspapers are about 95% Mac users... Write a page that works on the PC, it looks wrong on the Mac, and vice versa... Mozilla on the Mac renders the same as Mozilla on the PC... Firefox on the Mac renders the same as on a PC. Why shouldn't become a standard development platform? Remember when IE first started becoming "standard" and you'd hit a web site, and get a message "Sorry, you must have IE 4.x installed to view this site" and people would install it, and view the page. I say people start making an error page, "You must have Mozilla installed to view this page - www.mozilla.org for this free software" The web-dev community could easily force this into being.
I found one at a garage sale this morning - part of a $5.00 PS/2 (old 80286 vintage PS/2) system. If only IBM would make an updated version of this - same microswitch tech under each key, but add some of the newer features (USB, volume controls, etc). I'm sick of all the membrane keyboards. The keyboards happily on my desk now, and the other parts are waiting for trash pickup monday morning! As for the mouse, I hate the "full length button" crap - I hate that on the Macs, I don't think I want it on my PC!
That's probably the best (only?) way to deal with something like this. God, I would LOVE to have my boss ask me to do something illegal - I'd have her arse in a bind in no time!
They'll pad their pocketbooks with the extra ad revenue, and still drop $55 piece of junk games on the shelf at Best Buy. Justification will be, "It offsets the cost of piracy." Has ANY gaming company ever done any studies to see if a $15.00 game title on the store shelves would sell better than a $50 game? It seems to me that there would be at least three to four times as many that could afford the cheaper box which would boost sales more... AND, the people that want to play the game cheaper wouldn't have to bother a) downloading the ISO off torrents, b) findind a crack, c) getting infected with virus from "crack", d) reinstalling computer.
I have yet to work for any company where the marketing people have half a clue as to the way things really work. I know of .one. company (A VoIP company - probably soon to go belly up with the feds trying to make VoIP tappable) that actually has salespeople with CCNE's that actually sell the network, submit a complete 'plan' for the system, and the engineers back home actually do the router/device configuration.
I want to work there!
Remember when there were 30-pin SIMMS, and their very close cousin DIP(p?)S? One package has metal contacts, the other has pins. Well, I had some really expensive "pin" type 4-meg chips. I needed SIMMS. I desoldered the pins, Re-soldered the connectors with thin strips of tin-foil, plugged them in, and it worked! That was an uber-machine back then.... A 486 DX-2 66 with 16 mb of RAM!
I work at a company that hosts a huge number of websites for newspapers around the US. Enough of them already have become a PITA because the publishers think Google AdSense will bring good money to their site, and have inundated us with requests to add the damn javascript to their pages. (God forbit someone at the papers learn how to edit a friggin HTML file and insert a in it!!!) The funny thing is, these ads often compete against the newspapers themselves! I've seen ads show up that say "Why bother advertising in newspaper classifieds when you can advertise with us?" LOL... Too rich. Now, it's going to be, "How come my right side of the web page keeps stretching from it's normal size" - not paying any attention that this 400x300 pixel monster is taking up real estate on the page now.
When you try to get a easy-to-use, non-Windows system running on your elderly parent's PC so they can get online without worrying about spyware/viruses/etc., it's not exactly possible to do an FTP install over a dialup connection.
When I initially got into Linux, I tried every distro I could get my hands on, and SuSE is the only one that gave me that warm-fuzzy feeling -- UNTIL the first major update came out, and I hunted forever trying to get the dang ISOs for it. (Back to the drawing board - 9.1's shipping this week)
...an Internet tracking program. Honest! It works! How many viruses are going to pop up after something like this launches proclaiming to be the real thing?
It's a legit comment you mod-nazis... They plainly push the fact that you can play head-to-head games if you get a dual-port VGA card... It doesn't do much good to tout that as a selling point if the games play like shit!
I'm guessing not real well...
Being a long time Metallica fan, I bought that St. Anger album without so much as hearing a single track. I listened to the album once, and was absolutely shocked to hear how HORRIBLE it was. Lars, the RIAA, et al., can bite me - Next release from Metallica will get downloaded. IF it doesn't suck, it'll get burned on a CDR, and I'll call it even for making me spend $15 on a shitty album the previous time!
2600 was the name of a hack/phreak/anarchy group named after the 2600hz tone which used to be the key to black-box phreaking. 2600 down the phone line would drop you to the phone co's "master tone" where you could route your own calls, anywhere, free... (Not that I'd admit to anything, but I can still whistle that tone - a lot of good it does now :)
Ok! We have proof you DO monitor email traffic. Add some sniffers for the various 419 scams.
The sailers of old did indeed think people fell off the edge of the world after all. Hundreds upon hundreds were lost exploring the seas. If they stopped at the loss of life, we'd all be in Asia/Africa/Europe now - possibly /.'ing by carrier pidgeon.
...(*) Users of email will not put up with it Well, after two violations, they'll either be typing up their spamming BS with their toes or actually have to come out of their holes in order to voice their opinions. At that point, Slashdot can post another article listing the guy's home address, phone number, etc. Give him a Real Life /. (tm)
Why in hell is the price of gas approaching an all-time high here in the States? Sorry to say, there's been no overwhelming increase in Middle-East to US oil exports in the past year. If you want to say Stupid American, why not get the facts straight, and include "Stupid [insert your nationality here]"?
... Others that beat MI2: The Andromeda Strain and The Stand.
I worked for a large elevator manufacturing company formerly HQ'd in the US, but it got bought out by a company in Finland. Anyway, the admins there didn't have DHCP set up properly, and laptops brought into the US from Finland wouldn't release/renew their IPs properly. They also didn't allow laptop users to have admin access on their own laptops. Result: laptop that you couldn't log onto anything with. The only thing you could do is copy the SAM file and crack it with L0phtCrack. This saved many Powerpoint presentations for a large number of VIPs from Finland. One day I was backing up some stuff from my laptop to the corp. network because the HDD was getting ready to fail. The genius that configured the corporate anti-virus had it set to identify L0phtCrack as a virus/trojan horse. Within five minutes of detection, the network security manager (note: this was a former SALESPERSON who knew NOTHING about network security) comes running into the room... "WHO HAS LOW-FAT HERE??? I KNOW SOMEONE HAS LOW-FAT." I didn't have the heart to tell him he was a f'ing idiot :)
Good to hear! I hate the zero-notice BS that so many organizations pull. "We've known that this was coming for weeks" - Have a friggin' heart and drop the ball gently!
I was working as a consultant for a major elevator company in the US as a network admin/tech support slave. I've been there almost two years, they'd given me applications for permanent employment. Two days before by two-year anniversary (and one month before my first marriage), the big boss called me in his office. Here I was thinking, "Woohoo! Finally." I got there, and the manager from the consulting company was there, along with the corporate boss, and a big box. "Sorry, times are tough, and you're the highest paid consultant at the moment" (Never mind that I was the most experienced one there!) They just cut me like that, no chance for negotiating a slightly lower pay or anything. Poof! Gone! So, after I was gone, I was a bit peeved to say the least. Just to be able to vent a little, I sent an email to the corporate bossman, saying "You've put me in a real fine mess with all the plans for my wedding I now have to scrap... People shouldn't be treated like cattle. I wouldn't wish this on anyone - how would you feel if you ended up in the same situation?" The idiots read that as a threat against the boss' familiy somehow :P It was fun talking to some of the old employees there, hearing that "If XXXXX comes on the premises, call the police immediately" Talk about knee-jerk reaction!